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No Quick Fixes : Perspectives on Schools in Difficulty
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stoll, Professor Louise.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Educational leadership.
- School management and organization.
- School management and organization--Great Britain.
- School improvement programs--Great Britain.
- School improvement programs.
- Educational productivity--Great Britain.
- Educational productivity.
- Education and state--Great Britain.
- Education and state.
- Educational leadership--Great Britain.
- Local Subjects:
- Educational leadership.
- School management and organization.
- School management and organization--Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The challenge of school improvement for ""failing schools"" is a complex and much debated issue. This text attempts to help those working in, or working with, failing schools and aims to contradict the notion that there are no ""quick fixes"".
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Glossary; No Quick Fixes: An Introduction; Policy; The Dark Side of the Moon: Imagining an End to Failure in Urban Education; No Slow Fixes Either: How Failing Schools in England are Being Restored to Health; LEAs; Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea? Implications for School and LEA Development Following an Accelerated Inspection Programme; Rising From the Ashes; Schools; Highbury Grove; From Deconstruction to Reconstruction; Turning Around a Struggling School: A Case Study; Failing the Failures: The Conflict Between Care and the Curriculum
- External Facilitators'I Didn't Know He Was Ill': The Role and Value of the Critical Friend; 'A Trouble-shooter Calls': The Role of the Independent Consultant; Conceptual Issues; What's Wrong With Our Schools? Understanding 'Ineffective' and 'Failing' Schools; The Study and Remediation of Ineffective Schools: Some Further Reflections; Who's Failing?; The Cruising School: The Unidentified Ineffective School; International Perspectives; An Anatomy of Ineffectiveness; Combating Failure at School: An International Perspective; Notes on Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-71359-6
- 1-280-40615-1
- 0-203-48641-2
- 9780203486412
- OCLC:
- 808003779
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